Example sentences of "as he [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 2 | They were heavy , as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin . |
| 3 | The joke was , as he knew from the records , that one of two of the most successful criminous families had moved from council flats into the new apartments on the proceeds of a life of profitable wrongdoing . |
| 4 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 5 | There was no shelter to make for , anywhere on the long , wide ridge , and the heather and the little bushes would tangle his feet and trip him as soon as he strayed from the straight path . |
| 6 | Nor did Boswell the North Briton confine himself to political toadying to London , as he swung from compliments to conveyed slights : ‘ [ Mr Boyd ] entertained us with great civility . |
| 7 | David Button , a father-of-six , was knocked down as he cycled from his home in Hedgerley , Bucks . |
| 8 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 9 | On the morning of the Melbourne Stakes , which was to be Phar Lap 's warm-up race for the Melbourne Cup three days later , he was shot at from the window of a car as he returned from exercise . |
| 10 | The main objection came from John Lovell one day when he met his brother-in-law by chance , as he returned from a visit to the Cartwrights , the wardens at the new homes . |
| 11 | Panic announced as he returned from a visit to Albania on Aug. 10 that the state of emergency in Serbia 's province of Kosovo was to be lifted . |
| 12 | Just after 11pm on Sunday Barry , 21 , was grabbed by a robber outside his house in Harris Street , Darlington , as he returned from work . |
| 13 | Lester Piggott as he recovered from a racing fall . |
| 14 | POLICE were waiting to interview Chester 's former town crier yesterday as he recovered from burns after setting himself alight . |
| 15 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 16 | Although he remained a royal chaplain until at least 1644 , Young evidently did not enjoy the same regard from Charles I or Archbishop William Laud [ q.v. ] as he had from James I. His activities as dean of Winchester are recorded in his diary , preserved in Winchester Cathedral . |
| 17 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 18 | The mechanic watched him out of the comer of his eye as he went from car to car , making an elaborate pretence of examining the interiors . |
| 19 | She stared after him mutinously as he went from the room , willing him to bump his head as he went through the door , but to her disappointment Dr Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head with the grace and dexterity of long practice . |
| 20 | As he came from Palace I suppose he was involved in that thrashing they received from the Scousers a bit ago ( was it 9–1 or something ? ) . |
| 21 | With as much dignity as she could muster Sophie stood up , and as he came from behind his desk to open the door she saw thankfully that there was no one in the surgery . |
| 22 | It felt like somebody had put a gun to his kneecap , said David Lawrence today as he came from his bed at the hospital in Wellington to meet reporters . |
| 23 | But less discreetly , when haggling over prices in the house he could lose his temper and shout ‘ Do n't think I am hard up ’ , as he took from the cupboard a quarter pewter pot full of sovereigns ’ to flash at his antagonist . |
| 24 | He stood up smartly and she followed him with gratitude as he took from his pocket a large bunch of keys , from each of which dangled a carefully written label . |
| 25 | What had happened was that Stirling 's static line had snagged on the tail section as he exited from the door , and two panels were ripped from the parachute , causing him to descend too rapidly . |
| 26 | Even as he lifted from a cupboard the freshly ironed shirts , about which he was so particular , he was already mentally back in England . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm the battalion adjutant , ’ he went on to explain , as he swayed from foot to foot , ‘ and will be responsible for this intake for the period that you are billeted in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Ephraim Shapiro worked in London in the Russian department of the B.B.C. Wartime conditions suited this complicated man , as he suffered from chronic insomnia and liked fire-watching by night while emerging in daylight to make predatory raids on the thinly attended sale-rooms which provided a happy hunting ground for someone with eyes as sharp as his . |
| 29 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 30 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |